Cafe Dharma offers tasty organic treats

by Sonya Artero

Already living a green lifestyle as president of conscious living, and running Synergy Studio, Clare Calvo expands that effort by integrating the green and raw food movement into her mind, body and spirit mission.  At Café Dharma is where you'll find co-owner, Mark Gutierrez serving-up raw meals derived from ingredients grown by local, organic farmers.

"Simple nuts, vegetables, fruits, all organic, as much as we can organic local. They use these products and it's like alchemy going on in the kitchen and they trained the staff and like Mark says everything has just flown together," he said.

On the raw end, customer picks range from the "truth tacos" with nut meat, and on the cooked end, you'll love their daily specials.  Using ingredients like maca and cacao, Gutierrez says their variety of healthy shakes will give you that natural "zing" that every "body" needs.

"We call it a Happy Shake, but come in and try it and you'll really find out why we call it a happy shake. But it really builds what Chinese call the jing system , it builds the immune system and what we call a Libido system because if you don't have a healthy libido or a strong jing system, you're just no way you're going to fly," he said.

And rest assured, the eating green experience you'll gain from Café Dharma comes from Gutierrez's years of living, eating and studying the raw food movement that Calvo promises will be the medicine your body craves.